Means for determining the weight of loads.



E. BROWN. MEANS FOR DETERMINING THE WEIGHT OF LOADS. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15,1908v 932, 1 09., Patented Aug. 24, 1909.

MIN/583% N m {w mx gr I v ATTORNEY UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER E. BROWN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE BROWN HOISTING MACHINERY COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 24, 1909.

Application filed June 15, 1908. Serial No. 438,678.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER E. BROWN,

' of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and tus generally,

un erfilling the car, and, at

'volved and that are State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Means for Determining the WVeight of Leads; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings as a part of the specification, wherein the same parts in every instance are designated by the same letters.

My invention relates to weighing apparabut, more particularly, to the class of sue apparatus employed in determining theweight of large and heavy bulks, such, for instance, as in the process of filling cars or other general transportation mediems, with' ore, coal or like gross material, usually taken from dump piles on docks or in storage yards, or from vessels when it is diificu'lt, by following the rude methods in use, to accurately determine, in the first in stance, the precise weight that each car or other receptacle is given. In such cases the general practice has been to simply estimate this weight according to the number of bucket charges that are emptied into the car at the risk, of course; of either over or the necessity of a special movement of the latter, after loading, to yard-scales to obtain the weight more precisely. To overcome these disad vantages I have, as a fact, devised an arrangement or combination of a weighing apparatus and a bin or bunker suspended therefrom from which the cars are severally filled, and their loads determined at the same process. In this arrangement the bin is adapted to carry a supply for several cars, and is suspended from the crossor cornp0und-levers of a scale, whereby its contents are first weighed, and, also, in effect, after each load is withdrawn, so that the difference will at once, indicate the weight of the load itself. The weights thus into be suspended from the scale-levers, in this particular arrangement, are perhaps the maximum of weights such levers are called upon to sustain, and, although the details of a scale or weighing apparatus, that constitutes the present invention are equally applicable to any apparatus of such nature where the pivotal bearings of compound lovers are tobe correctly beam P, with its located or adjusted, and whether the receptacle of the main load is suspended from the lovers, or is otherwise supported thereby, I have nevertheless used the former type of weighing apparatus in the drawings, to illustrate said invention, in the more specific application of the same that is indicated.

In said drawingsFigure 1 is a side view of a system of compoundlwers from which a bin or bunker may be suspended. Fig. 2 represents a special form of knife-edge bearings employed in their in-seats. Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 2 an Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of said knife-edge bearings when in said seat in their respective places in the levers of a given system, and connected together by inks.

The system of lovers referred to is of course held and sustained in its operative position by a suitable frame structure of which P indieates a lower beam member carrying a set of scales having an upper scale-beam V. An actuating lever L ivotally en ages said lzmger arm exibly or jointedly connected, by' a rod, to the said scale-beam V, and its shorter arm, likewise connected, by a rod W", to an adjustable or sliding nose-piece w, on'the outer extremity or arm of a torsion-lever L Said lever L in its turn, is firmly attached near its inner end, like a crank, to a shaft or shaft-like part K that extends at right angles or cross-wise of said lever L and has opposite lugs or cross-levers Z, Z, one of which is pivotally attachcd to a standard that is firmly attached to the top of said frame structure and the other and opposite lug of saidlugs pivotally connected to the lever L, as hereinafter. explained.

L and L are oppositely related compound or multiplying levers, which, together, s an said supporting structure from which 1; ey depend. Said levers are shown as lattice girders, and are, in turn, pivotally hung from the upper horizontal member of said structure, as shown, by suspender rods W and W that pass around pivotbearings at U in the lovers and are secured above to socketcastings 1). Near and between the points U in said levers are shown, in each case, similarly connected loops, or suspender rods W, extending downwardly and fastened to crossblocks. on castings extending; supporting rods W and are to engage and support a materialreceiving bin or hopper below.

From the points of their attachment and support above described the lovers L and L extend inwardly, one beneath the other, at or near the middle point of the span, Where they are linked together in the manner to be described. The uppermost lever L, how ever, is longer 'tliz'tll L and extends substan tially across the span to a point beneath the inner of said lugs or parts Z, on the shaft K, Here it is Divot-ally connected to said lug, by linl it, through a clevis i. The other panion lug Z, on the opposite side oi K at this noint is corres )ondingly connected to the standard to by a clevis and an eye-bolt r.

T re supporting connections upon which the levers severally depend, in the most ethcient constructions, are knits-edge hearings, in each instance. in the present invention such bearings are used in the direct connec- 7 v tron described lj6tWOQ-l'i the L and if. "ri here heavy load Weights tained in the special aural-mus sup such b rings should also not only be practicable. but of bio linear unnen to ohtani and he assured. l

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other, in and cross-Wise of said levers at or near the middle point of their span. Said bearings when thus seated, should be radial of their pins, and the pins themselves be loosely fitted in their places in order that they may be rotated therein, and by the revolution in the one dir action or-the other, carry the knife-edge boring to the desired distance nearer or farther from the pivot at the other end of the lever, when it should be peri'i'iancntly fixed in place. This may be done, indicated in the drawings, by reepcr-plates that engage grooves, provided for the purpose on the under side of the pins and which are bolted to the levers when the pins'have been revolved to the desired de-- gree, or by any other appropriate means. Said knife-edges e and their bearings are united by links at that complete the conned tion between the lovers at the point in ques tion.

Having tl u explained niy said invention, desire to secure by Letters ighing apparatus the combine er-member thereof, and a knifei q apparatus, the combination of oppositely and overhanging iGv revolubly adjustable pins located in and tansversely said levers near the mid die point of their span, knife-edge bearings radially seated in said pins, and links, in engagement with said bearings, that connect said levers one to the other, substantially as shov-Jn and described.

ALEXANDER E. BROWN. ee o" SHERIDAN, 

